Word family noun valuables value values valuation valuer overvaluation ≠ undervaluation devaluation adjective valuable invaluable overvalued ≠ undervalued valueless valued verb value devalue overvalue ≠ undervalue
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishvaluationval‧u‧a‧tion /ˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable] 1 VALUEa professional judgment about how much something is worth The property has a valuation of $1.6 billion.2 a judgment about how effective or useful a particular idea or plan will beExamples from the Corpus
valuation• Under the city charter, Los Angeles was prohibited from incurring a debt greater than 15 percent of its assessed valuation.• Whole areas of property will be lumped into bands with no attempt at individual valuations.• The company's market valuation is now at $2.1 billion.• However, there are a range of other goods for which no meaningful valuation can be provided.• The basis of valuation was the rights' economic value in their existing use within the group's business.• The banding system and property valuations are devised deliberately to protect the rich at the expense of the rest.• The principal applications have been and remain rent review and share valuation, which are covered in Chapters 2 and 3.• The court made a mandatory order compelling the vendor to allow the person to enter so that the valuation could proceed.From Longman Business Dictionaryvaluationval‧u‧a‧tion /ˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable] a judgement about how much money something is worthThere have been some rather unrealistic valuations put on businesses recently.disagreements over the valuation of the bank’s sharesproperty valuation → inventory valuation → stock valuation 